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Is Majora's Mask Low Fantasy Videogame

So Majora’s Mask is listed as Low Fantasy, but as a huge Majora’s Mask fan myself, I really think it doesn’t in any way fis Low Fantasy. I’m sure it was deleted in the past, but it looks like it was added back.

The entry claims Magic is less present than other Zelda games and that the plot of Majora's mask is more grounded with realistic things.

To list how magic is ‘’extremely’’ prominent as well as how the plot and the setting are not realistic.

• Far from using basic magic, Link can:
  • Time Travel
  • Slow down time as well as fast forward through time.
  • Shapeshift into other people via healing their ghosts. One of these transformations (Fierce Deity), is even a creature, created by the memories of all the people of the land that Link befriended.
  • Teleport
  • Create decoys of himself.
  • Summon a living Scarecrow.
  • See and talk to ghosts, sometimes turning them into magical masks.
  • Transform into a 50 foot tall giant.
  • Turn his arrows into beams of Fire, Ice and Light.
• There’s many Fantastic monsters and creatures even by the standards of the Zelda series, whom are all treated as normal by regular citizens, including:
  • Plant people that shoot bubbles or nuts and can fly with magical flowers.
  • Rock people that can roll into balls and move at superhuman speeds.
  • Fish people that run a rockband using sea animals as instruments.
  • Fairies that are common knowledge and the citizens of town regularly visit.
  • An entire valley and city composed of undead like Ghosts, Mummies, Skeletons and Zombies.
  • Snowlems just outside town.
  • Alien ghosts!
  • Locations are extremely weird like a dungeon that you repeatedly have to change gravity in.
• Time Travel and shapeshifting via magical masks are central elements in general.
• The Big Bad is a demonic Evil Mask possessing an Undead Child and commanding a gigantic army of very strange monsters. He was also friends with the Giants that literally created the world he lives in.
• There’s a living scarecrow just walking around town that is treated as normal.
• Many ordinary citizens possess Masks of Power, they even explain to you bestow magical abilities upon their wearer.
• Gonk-ish witches are regular merchants.
• Other fantastic things include Talking Animals as well as Funny Animals, including a possibly Cybernetic beaver
• The Magic effects of the milk from the milkbar is well known and even a point of advertisement.

And I can’t find it at this moment, but in an interview, with one of the game’s writers, possibly Aonuma, he stated he added in whimsical and dream like elements into the game to offset another writer when he added scary stuff.

Make no mistake, I love Majora’s Mask, but it doesn’t seem to fit the trope at all.

Even in the Zelda series, I feel The Legend Of Zelda 1 is more Low Fantasy, though I don’t think it fits the trope either.